1) Allocution 2) Soliloquy
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1) Certain punctuation mark 2) Contraction mark 3) Contraction punctuation 4) French word used in English 5) Mark of omission 6) Punctuation mark 7) Rhetorical device 8) Sign of omission 9) Sign of possession
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- address to an absent or imaginary person
- the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
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addressing of a personified thing rhetorically
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Punctuation mark indicating possession (Bob's car) or representing letters that have been removed (wouldn't, isn't).
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an address to a dead or absent person or personification as if he or she were present.
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• (n.) The mark [`] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne`er for never, can`t for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy`s hat, boys` hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e. • (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from th...
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Plural form: apostrophes. A punctuation mark used to show when letters have been missed out of words or that something belongs to something else.
Example: The party's booked for Friday. That's George's birthday.
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a rhetorical device by which a speaker turns from the audience as a whole to address a single person or thing. For example, in William Shakespeare`s ... [1 related articles]
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Not to be confused with the punctuation mark, apostrophe is the act of addressing some abstraction o
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An address to a dead or absent person or personification as if he or she were present.
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A·pos'tro·phe noun [ (1) Latin , from Greek ... a turning away, from ... to turn away; ... from + ... to turn. (2) F., from Latin
apostrophus apostrophe, the turning away or omitting of a letter, Greek ....]
1. (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly break...
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Poem which is directly addressed to a person or thing (often absent). An example is Wordsworth's sonnet Milton which begins: 'Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour'. NB not to be confused with an apostrophe indicating missing letters or the possessive case. Other examples of apostrophe include A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg (a...
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The apostrophe is a rhetorical figure by which the orator changes the course of his speech, and makes a short impassioned address to one absent as if he were present, or to things without life and sense as if they had life and sense. The same term is also applied to a comma when used to contract a word, or to mark the possessive case, as in 'John's...
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a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present.
*For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel. Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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From Greek ?p?st??f?, a figure of speech consisting of a sudden turn in a text towards an exclamatory address to an imaginary person or a thing.
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an emotion-charged address to an absent or dead person, abstract quality, or object.
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noun address to an absent or imaginary person
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(grammar) Punctuation mark (') used in written English and some other languages. In English it serves primarily to indicate either a missing letter (
mustn't for
must not) or number (
'47 for
1947), or gramma...
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a rhetorical convention in which the speaker either addresses a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object or abstraction. An apostrophe can also refer to a speaker's address to a particular member or section of the audience.
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[Literary terms] an address to an absent or imaginary person
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a mark used to indicate the omission of one or more letters
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an address to an absent or imaginary person
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[Difficult words] a mark used to indicate the omission of one or more letters
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[Obscure words] a mark used to indicate the omission of one or more letters
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